No. The plates move due to forces within earth, likely a combination of mantle convection, and the uneven distribution of weight on the plates.
Well, when earths plates move away from each other that's when it happens but move well then NO!
earths plates scraping each other
In a divergent plate boundary
In a divergent plate boundary
the tectonic platesthe tectonic plates can be move to be far and near to each other
earthquake
all volcanoes are caused by the earths plates moving toward each other and that is called convergent boundaries.
This happens because the plates under the earths crust are always moving some times the plates crash into each other, this sometimes makes one plate sink under the other one and burning up, or pushing up.
crack in earths crust where two plates are sliding past each other
When two plates move away from each other it makes a falt line or a riffed. -bekahcboo
Most volcanoes on land are caused by the Earth's plates moving toward each other, a process known as convergent plate boundary. When two plates converge, the denser oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental plate, leading to the formation of volcanoes along the subduction zone.
earthquakes in the earths core rubbing togetherTectonic plates move and collide against each other.